Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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